Hey all; I don't think I've mentioned it here before but I'm a metalsmith! I've been hand-crafting jewellery and other goodies for the last couple years under my brand Alchemic Anvil. As soon as Auriea & Michaël launched the TEF remaster fundraiser I knew I wanted to make some Endless Forest inspired designs to help raise donations for the game. Sadly like loads of others the end of 2016 and the start of 2017 haven't been easy, but I finally feel ready to get this project started!

I usually post behind-the-scene studio content to my instagram but wanted a blog here as well to let you guys follow along as I design and build the pieces! Once complete, all these designs will go up for sale in my Etsy store with a percentage of that money being donated towards the new Endless Forest!

Art below the cut, most of which is going to contain my zombie deer 'Teradeer' in various states of decay. If that's not your bag I'd advise not reading more!

Reposting this because people have ruined the comment section of the original blog...Please Please if you are going to use CSS coding in your signature, make sure you know what you are doing and that all your tags are closed. :\

Edit: SUCCESS! I once again have control over my camera through the use of my tablet. Yay. Thank you for your suggestions you guys, much appreciated.

Hopefully someone on the community can help me out with an issue I'm having.
I'm able to run TEF on my Macbook pro through a bootcamp partition (this allows me to have both a Mac and Windows operating system installed on the same laptop) however I'm having trouble controlling my deer In Game.

My laptop has only a touch-pad, and unfortunately the arrow keys, AWD keys and touch-pad all seem to control my deer...this leaves me unable to rotate the In Game camera. I can zoom it in and out, but unless I have 'camera behind avatar' initiated I am unable to see what I'm doing.

Does anybody know a way to control the camera on a mac? Is it plausible to set the touch-pad to control my deer and the arrow keys to control the camera (or vide versa)?

Any help or ideas would be awesome, this is really making TEF difficult for me because it hugely limits my line of site In Game. Even if you don't know an instant fix, if you have a theory I'd be happy to test it out. Anything that could help would be fantastic.

Hi guys, I know I haven't been around much but since I could use something to distract myself from working on my Thesis, I'm going to take two TEF art requests. These are not first-come, but feel free to request for yourself or for a friend (or even a stranger!). You can also request non-TEF characters, I'm game for drawing most critters so don't shy away from requesting humans, deer, whatever.

If you are requesting, please link to either a reference image OR a thorough written description, I can work from either but due to its nature written references will result in more artistic licence on my end. These requests might also take several weeks to do, as I have less free time these days so a bit of patience is required.

edit: So I was in the mood for some fawns, so I went with Alhena and Tanpopo. I would really love to do more of these but I have less time than I expected, but thank you for all the great suggestions!

If you use CSS coding in your blog, you NEED TO PLACE IT UNDER A CUT. This prevents your coding from interfering with the coding that makes up the TEFc site. Not using a cut can effectively 'break' pages of the site (like the biographies page) making it impossible to navigate as intended.

Making a cut is EASY. You can see a step by step tutorial, with pictures showing you how by clicking this link. Please always use a cut when creating any blog that uses CSS coding!

Thank you to all the responsible members who use a cut when creating CSS testing blogs, or when posting biographies!

If you find a blog that is 'leaking' coding and it hasn't already been pointed out, POLITELY comment explaining the problem and provide a link to the tutorial above. Realize that there are no warnings on TEFc about using a cut, this unfortunately all has to be word of mouth. Be kind, many people are new to coding and had no idea they needed to use a cut.

If you have a blog that supplies new users with coding templates or tips, including IN BOLD, unmissable text, information about how to create a cut, and the importance of using them.

Please, help do your part to prevent leaky blogs. Nobody wants to step in that.

Edit: Also remember that using codes in comment signatures (such as changing the colour of your font) need to be closed at the end of your comment with a closing tab. Otherwise your font colour or other un-closed codes will leak out onto every blog you post on!

Here is a simple example:
Hey look, I am a font colour code example!
[ color = blue ] Hey look, I am a font colour code example! [ / colour ]

^ This is what your code looks like, the text inside the [ ] symbols is what turns your font blue. The last part of the code [ / colour ] closes the code.

A collection of characters and sets designed and painted by myself. Please do not repost these anywhere, link to this blog instead if you wish to share them. Please do not use these designs for your own character, either here on TEFc or elsewhere.

Going through some stuff and I just found the first serious picture I ever did for Queze! Well, he wasn't Queze at that point, but I can't believe how he's changed.

I think I'll draw a little timeline of the various changes he's gone through over the years...it would be cool to see the development of other characters too *WINK WINK NUDGE NUDGE* come on you know you wanna!

EDIT: picture under the cut because it might stretch the page

There seem to be a few cases of this lately so just as a news flash to new members and a reminder to returning ones: on TEFc we do not use art made by other people without getting the original artists' permission! It's super easy to ask and if they say no, there are also plenty of people taking requests for free art and even some great artists who are open for commissions.

Something that makes TEFc so cool is seeing all the art that members produce. When art gets stolen and re-posted trust gets broken and people stop feeling comfortable sharing what they make. Not fun for anybody.

If you have any questions about how to go about contacting an artist about using their artwork, or what to do if you see someone using art that is not their own, comment and we can chat about it.

Do not use this thread to point out or harass players who have done this. That isn't the point of this post.